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Emma G. Gallegos
Stories by Emma G. Gallegos
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This week's edition of Overheard in L.A. features bits of overheard conversation from auditions, a Grimes concert and the West Hollywood Target. Our Overheard in L.A. feature relies on you to send us the strange conversations you overhear in this city. Send them our way at tips@laist.com.
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In tonight's Extra, Extra, a talented missing canine is returned to his own in Venice Beach, a "Moesha" star died of cancer and West Nile virus is discovered in the Valley. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).
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Prepare yourselves: starting on June 22 all eight ramps at the 405 intercharge above Wilshire and Sepulveda will be demolished and rebuilt over the course of the next year. Metro will be doing construction on these ramps two at a time, and City News Service tells us it's being called "Octojam" (since naming our construction projects is a habit we just haven't been able to kick since Carmageddon).
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After checking into rehab about a month ago, Nick Stahl has checked out—against the wishes of his doctor.
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In tonight's Extra, Extra, Clinton surprises Redondo, Apple computers are expensive and West Hollywood isn't the gayest neighborhood around. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).
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Lindsay Lohan is getting suddenly bashful at the thought of going completely nude in her next movie "The Canyons." Before Lohan was associated with the project, the film's screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis said that leads will have "to act and be full frontal naked banging girls and guys realistically."
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In tonight's Extra, Extra, a San Francisco couple takes justice into their own hands, an HIV-positive teacher said he was forced to quit and all the cool kids want their own Carmageddon. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).
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A publicist hired by Walmart posed as a student journalist from USC in order to infiltrate a labor meeting and talk to warehouse workers about working conditions. The group Warehouse Workers United is working to improve conditions for workers at area Walmarts.
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A second medical marijuana patient has been denied a transplant at Cedars-Sinai. Patient Toni Trujillo was put on a kidney transplant list earlier this year after her existing kidney transplant began to fail but she was booted off the list because of her "substance abuse," according to Americans for Safe Access.
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In tonight's Extra, Extra, a Glassell Park girl who was shot to death was planning on going to college, kids in LAUSD won't have to go to school as much and Jerry Lewis had blood sugar problems. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).
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A jury today convicted a former Westminster cop of kidnapping a woman from the Ontario Mills Mall and raping her at gunpoint back in 2010. The jury seemed to reject the "Zoloft defense" offered up by the attorney for the ex-cop Anthony Nicholas Orban, 32.
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It's the time of the year for high school seniors—even otherwise well-behaved honor students—to blow off steam and pull one last prank. But at least one group of students is paying the price for senior year hijinks.